Thank you for your comments, esp. named captures and proper use of dump.

When I run the code, the array ends up having nine separate scalar elements instead of three references to anonymous arrays containing three scalar elements each

Here's what I'm currently getting:

[
  "/projects/2138137193/iblab?ref=discovery",
  2138137193,
  "iBlab",
  "/projects/2060538158/nz-hosting?ref=discovery",
  2060538158,
  "NZ Hosting",
  "/projects/1956727289/how-to-build-a-spaceship?ref=discovery",
  1956727289,
  "How To Build A Spaceship",
]

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Here's what I want:

[
 [
  "/projects/2138137193/iblab?ref=discovery",
  2138137193,
  "iBlab"
 ],
 [
  "/projects/2060538158/nz-hosting?ref=discovery",
  2060538158,
  "NZ Hosting"
 ],
 [
  "/projects/1956727289/how-to-build-a-spaceship?ref=discovery",
  1956727289,
  "How To Build A Spaceship"
 ]
]

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How is this possible given the constraint that the entire HTML content is a scalar (obtained via LWP)?

(I realize I can "post-process" the @projects array but I'd like to know if everything can be done in a single assignment without any munging afterward.)

#! perl -w

use strict;
use Data::Dump qw(dump);

my $html     =           '<h6 class="project-title"><a href="/projects
+/2138137193/iblab?ref=discovery" target="">iBlab</a></h6><h6 class="p
+roject-title"><a href="/projects/2060538158/nz-hosting?ref=discovery"
+ target="">NZ Hosting</a></h6><h6 class="project-title"><a href="/pro
+jects/1956727289/how-to-build-a-spaceship?ref=discovery" target="">Ho
+w To Build A Spaceship</a></h6>';

my @projects = $html =~ m|<h6 class="project-title"><a href="(/project
+s/(\d+)/.+?\?ref=discovery)" target="">(.+?)</a></h6>|g;

dump \@projects;

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Searched for donut and crumpit. Found donate and stumbit instead.

In reply to Re^2: What is Perl way to simultaneously assign to three separate arrays? by CoVAX
in thread What is Perl way to simultaneously assign to three separate arrays? by CoVAX

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